After pressure from fans and organizations, eight of the 12 participating clubs, including all English clubs, announced that they were abandoning the controversial project to create a new European Football Championship. The European Premier League, a controversial project to create a multi-billion dollar championship with the major football clubs in the world. A continent, which began to collapse only 48 hours after announcing its creation until the beginning of Wednesday (04/21), only four of the project remained in the project. The 12 founding members: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Milan. The bloc’s withdrawal movement began late Tuesday night. After protests from their fans, the political class, and threats from UEFA and FIFA, England’s six out of the 12 founding members have reported their withdrawal from the project. Manchester City were the first to make the withdrawal official, followed by Chelsea. Later, in a series of announcements made at night, Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham also confirmed that they would not continue with the project. The current English champion wrote in an official note: “Liverpool can confirm that our participation in the proposal to form the European Premier League will not continue.” Also on Tuesday evening, the European Premier League also announced that it would “reconsider appropriate steps to redesign the project”. “Given the current circumstances, we must reconsider the most appropriate steps to redesign the project, always keeping in mind our goals to provide the best possible experience for fans and expand solidarity payments to the entire football community,” the newly created league said in a statement. According to the British website The Athletic, AC Milan would also have decided to abandon the project. To the Italian news agency ANSA confirmed, Inter Milan, that it no longer has an interest in participating in the bloc, and the last to announce his departure Wednesday was the Spanish Atletico Madrid, who argued that conditions have changed since the announcement of the start of the tournament. Wrong and said that they made the decision taking into account the opinion of his fans. “The last few days have shown us the deep feeling our fans feel for this club. Their response has made us think and think. It was never our intention to cause these problems, but we did not want to leave when we got the invitation to this Premier League to protect the future of Arsenal.” “But we made a mistake and we apologize for that,” they added. Tottenham also apologized to the fans when notified of the withdrawal, and this was confirmed by a letter from club president Daniel Levy. “We regret the anxiety and sadness we cause. We believe it is important for our club to participate in the development of a new structure that will ensure the financial future of the football pyramid. We believe that sport should constantly review its competitions,” Levy said. “The bodies must ensure that sport develops.” That we all love. Thank you to the fans for having said their word. “Towards the end, without the English clubs, Inter Milan and Atlético de Madrid, the Premier League will have only four members: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Milan and Juventus.” We will not participate in the European Premier League. We have listened attentively to the return of our fans, the British government and others. We remain committed to working with the football community to find sustainable solutions to the long-term challenges facing football. Manchester United club announced. No German or French club has committed to participating in the Premier League. And absent from the list are Bayern Munich, winner of the Champions League Cup in 2020, and Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund, who have reached the semi-finals of this year’s tournament. The founding clubs said that the economic crisis caused by the epidemic was one of the reasons that led to the initiative. “The creation of the Premier League comes at a time when the global pandemic has accelerated the instability of the current economic model of European football,” they noted. The withdrawal was announced after a day of increasing pressure from fans, governments and sports authorities against the establishment of the tournament that will compete with the European Champions League and thus face UEFA and FIFA. In the UK, even British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has spoken and has not ruled out intervention. Johnson hailed the exit of English clubs from the European Premier League: “I welcome yesterday’s announcement [terça-feira] In the evening. “This is the right outcome for football fans, clubs and communities across the country. We must continue to protect our beloved national sport,” he wrote on Twitter. On Sunday, Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Chelsea Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham announced the creation of the European Premier League, despite UEFA, national associations and many other clubs. Only 12 revealed – and another five, qualified annually, UEFA has threatened to disqualify all the clubs that make up the tournament, ensuring it has the support of England, Spain and Italy, as well as the soccer tournaments from these three. the countries. RPR (Efe, ots)
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